1. Why so much confusion?

The EU referendum question planted the seeds of confusion by combining the following two questions into one,

• Do we want to be an independent nation?
  
  This is the question Brexiteers answered and are fighting for
• Do we want to be a part of the common market?
  
  This is the question Remainers answered and are fighting for.

This was done by an arrogant political establishment convinced of their ability to force their will on the electorate.

Consider the recent quote from David Cameron when publicising his memoir “For the Record“, where he unabashedly said “Every single day I think about it, the referendum and the fact that we lost“.

So the person responsible for the 2016 EU Referendum wasn’t seeking public will but wanted to bend it to his own.  Do you think he did everything in his power to push for his desired outcome?  Do you think he, and the people he left behind are doing anything to respect the will of the people?  Of course not.  Even now he, along with other people in power are doing everything to nix Brexit and frustrate the will of the people in whose name they claim to serve!

Cameron in his 2015 Chatham House speech before the EU referendum said,

“The referendum that follows will be a once-in-a-generation choice.  An in or out referendum. When British people speak their voice will be respected – not ignored.  If we vote to leave, then we will leave”  There will not be another renegotiation and another referendum… this is our only chance to get this right.”

Now try and explain why after three years on 13 September 2019 he offered a diametrically opposite view saying that “a second referendum on Britain’s EU membership could not be ruled out“

Does it remind you of one Theresa May and her repeated assertion about “No Deal being Better then a Bad Deal“?

 

 

2. How can British citizens be indifferent to loss of national sovereignty? 

Some of the reasons for support for an increasingly federalised EU are,

• 75 years of global peace and prosperity has made people complacent about the value of freedom and their cultural heritage
• Big businesses want an end to nation states for unrestricted access to bigger markets and profits
• Majority of media, academia and intellectuals are globalist progressives who dismiss all traditional values of nation, culture, traditions and patriotism
• Ruling class actively promote the idea of EU membership as it helps make them less accountable for their failures.
• Technology has given Big Tech companies powerful propaganda tools to influence, and brain wash people. They use this unrestricted power for their globalist agenda which is much more potent than anything dreamt up by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Reich Minister of Propaganda.

It is important to remember that we can easily lose this most precious of gifts if we do not treasure and protect it.

3. Are we less independent as members of EU?

A sovereign country has the following main characteristics

a.  Governs itself
b.  Controls its borders
c.  Creates its laws

Being a member of the EU fails on all these three criteria

a.   We CANNOT govern ourselves

As a member of EU, our national government is subservient to the European Council, European Commission and European Parliament. The reason we know this to be true is that our national government cannot reject any law or ruling passed by EU.

This makes our national government a mere shadow of a sovereign government.

b.    We CANNOT Control our own borders

As a member of EU we have to abide by EU rules requiring free movement of citizens between countries. This includes European immigration policy and free movement of immigrants between member states and the rights of EU to adopt rules relating to

•  The conditions of entry and residence,
•  The definition of the rights of third country nationals residing legally,
•  Illegal immigration and unauthorised residence, and
•  Combating human trafficking.

This effectively makes EU the final authority on all matters relating to the control of our borders.

c. We CANNOT create our own laws

EU has exclusive powers to act on Commercial, Agricultural, fisheries, transport, competition and rules governing free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. EU has shared competence in other areas. Combined, these powers give EU a stranglehold on member states.

We CANNOT be independent when

• We do not have the freedom to leave the EU despite the democratic will of the people. This curtailment of freedom is called imprisonment.
• EU can threaten the unity of our country with the Irish backstop, and
• EU can demand a ransom of £39 Billion as a precondition to being allowed to leave.

4. Is EU democratic?

Can an institution be democratic where

• Its origins are mainly the result of an initiative of the elites including politicians, business leaders and intellectuals without any valid democratic mandate from their citizens.
• The only elected body in the EU, the European Parliament, instead of being the supreme governing institution is subservient to the European Commission and European Council.
• The citizens of the member states have no power to make EU leaders accountable for their actions or performance.
• The European Parliament moves from Brussels to Strasbourg for four days, six times a year, purely to appease French intransigence.
• The whole structure of EU is inefficient and corrupt with no transparency on its decision making and how it spends its money.
• The power structure of EU is modelled after the Soviet Union politburo, where the citizens of the nation states have no direct influence on its rulers. There is a flimsy pretence of democracy with the direct election of European Members of Parliament to an almost powerless European Parliament.
• European Commission votes in unanimity on majority of issues which is a signature attribute of authoritarian regimes like Soviet Union, China or North Korea.

The ability of people to directly elect and throw out its political leaders is the hallmark of a democracy, a right not available to EU citizens.

5. Why the stark divisions on Brexit?

It is the age-old battle between the will of the people and the elites.

The media endlessly criticises the will of the people by dismissing it as populist opinions of hapless ignorant masses who don’t know what is good for them or ‘what they were voting for’.

Elites use this supposed ignorance of the masses as a justification to exercise their own will and tenacious hold on power. They freely use any means to achieve this goal including the use of propaganda, levers of power and judiciary to frustrate the will of the people.

a.  Brexiteers
Represent the will of the people as clearly mandated by the results of the 2016 EU referendum. Most of these people are nationalists and fiercely opposed to being ruled by a faceless EU bureaucracy.  A majority of Brexiteers are working-class people who take pride in their nation, culture, laws and history for which they are willing to make personal sacrifices.

b.  Remainers
Represent elites, people in power, businesses and the globalists. This becomes obvious when they blatantly accuse Brexiteers of not knowing what they voted for. Remainers are mainly motivated by financial gains, power and ideology for the following reasons:

Financial Gains – Big businesses and people with international investments do not have any strong sense of national identity and are willing to support any cause which will benefits them. EU Project is a perfect fit for businesses seeking bigger and borderless markets and investment possibilities.

Power – Politicians, Bureaucrats and Media always seek greater power for themselves and power is where the money is. It flows in abundance through profits from foreign investments, campaign contributions, promise of lucrative jobs, ownership of media, advertising revenues and cleverly disguised lobbying.

Ideology – Most of the academia and media is progressive and liberal, caring little about the concepts of culture, traditions and nation state. They blindly promote an almost Utopian vision of One World where there are no borders – EU being a steppingstone for this globalist agenda.

Are we victims of a policy of divide and rule by the oppressing classes?

6. What about Finance and Trade?

a.  Financial Considerations

UK’s Estimated annual contribution to EU Budget for 2018

• UK Gross contribution                   £17.4 Billion
• Less Rebates to UK                         £ 4.2 Billion
• Less Public Sector Rebates             £ 4.3 Billion
• Net Contribution by UK to EU    £ 8.9 Billion

UK will save £8.9 Billion annually by leaving the EU which is £171 million every week!  Surely, this saving combined with the 39 Billion ransom demanded by EU is large enough a war chest for us to tide over any financial difficulties of transiting to a free trading nation.

b.  Trade Considerations

Statistics on annual UK-EU trade for 2018

EU Exports to UK – £345 Billion
UK Exports to EU – £289 Billion

Trade is an apolitical activity where all sides voluntarily operate on mutually agreed terms for their own self-interest. EU exports goods worth £56 Billion more to UK which is advantageous to them. Since EU has more to lose in the absence of any deal it naturally begs the following questions,

• Why would EU risk any trade disruption with UK with or without a deal?
• Like any business why wouldn’t EU pursue the goal of an advantageous deal if it could?
• Does EU trade with UK as an act of charity or necessity?
• Would the EU need for UK goods disappear in case of a No Deal Brexit?
• Would a No Deal Brexit create disruptions to both EU and UK with EU being a bigger loser by £56 Billion worth of trade?
• Would UK be in a better position than EU with £8.9 Billion savings in annual contributions and £39 Billion unpaid ransom?
• Might these savings help cushion any adverse impact of a No Deal Brexit for the UK economy?
• Would EU be a bigger loser with an annual net loss of £56 Billion in trade and £8.9 Billion UK contribution to their budget?
• Would this annual loss of trade and UK contributions to EU budget be made worse by the loss of the £39 Billion ransom demanded by them?
• Would the citizens and businesses in the EU nations, forced to shoulder this burden quietly accept these implications of No Deal Brexit?
• If EU was the panacea for economic prosperity than why are a large numbers of EU economies in very precarious state some verging on recession?
• If we did not consider the loss of trade during the Battle of Britain, why are we worried about these cost when dealing with Brexit.
• Can a nation be subjugated by trade and curtailment of freedoms without firing a bullet?

Only somebody who does not value Freedom can give financial considerations and trade precedence over sovereignty.

7. Why the fear mongering?

a.  The end is nigh!
This is always the last resort of ideologues when they run out of reasoned arguments to further their own agenda. It should be dismissed outright as pure propaganda, doesn’t matter who says it.  If we could survive the Battle of Britain, we can definitely survive the Battle of Brexit

b.  Supply Shortages
Did we learn any lessons from the Berlin Blockade?  If the 15-month blockade of Berlin in 1948, imposed by a hostile Soviet Union, could be defeated in a relatively primitive technological era, how difficult would it be to deal with the temporary readjustment required after Brexit with or without a deal.

c.  Workforce Shortages
People unable to find work in their own countries come to UK from European countries not for any altruistic reasons but to serve their own interest. These people would still be looking for jobs after Brexit.  A welcoming and simple European immigration policy would put these concerns to rest.

d.  Medicine Shortages
It surely would be surprising if anyone believes in this propaganda in the day and age of DHL, Amazon and the concept of next day international delivery from almost anywhere in the world.  The situation was far worse during the Battle of Britain and still did not deter the hardy resolve of the British. Have we become so soft so as to be scared of such deceptively planted propaganda?

Can a nation which valiantly stood up to the Blitz of London be cowed into submission by such propaganda?

8. Why has a deal with EU been so difficult?

a.  Takes two to Tango

A deal is a negotiated agreement between two parties. The absence of any deal can best be understood by answering the following questions:

• Does EU want UK to leave the EU?
• Would EU want a deal if they did not want UK to leave the EU?
• Can you negotiate a deal if EU refused to negotiate?
• Why does the media only blame the British politicians for their inability to negotiate a deal without holding EU accountable for their recalcitrance?
• Wouldn’t giving in to the EU intransigence be surrender and not a deal?

b.  Leadership

Churchill – A deal such as Brexit needs vision, strength and leadership. This was displayed by Churchill when he decided to stand up to Nazi bullying despite the nation being militarily and economically weaker than we are now.

Theresa May – A Remainer, and like Chamberlain, she had no vision or convictions. How else do you explain somebody who endlessly repeated the slogan of “No Deal is better than a bad deal” but went on to negotiate a deal which was not only worse than a No Deal but also worse than our current membership of EU.

A leader, such as May, was never going to be successful at negotiating a good Brexit deal. It was always futile to expect somebody who failed even to win a majority and the confidence of her own nation in the snap election of 2017, to succeed in the harder task of negotiating with the monolithic EU!

The bullying nature of EU was on full display when in the face of a strong leader with convictions, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker struck an instant deal on behalf of EU with Donald Trump in July 2018. “Take it leave it” did not cross the mind of Mr Juncker during his negotiations with President Trump.

c.  Vested Interests

There are global vested interests including those in EU and UK who are interested in UK remaining in the EU at any cost. For this they are even willing to sacrifice the most sacrosanct heritage of our nation – Democracy

d.  The Power of Deterrence

The world has been a safe place for the last 75 years mainly because of the power of nuclear deterrence. This means that in the absence of a threat to mutual self-interests, you cannot strike a balanced deal be it for peace or for trade.

An aggressively dominant Soviet Union certainly wouldn’t have signed any Nuclear Treaties if the west had taken its nuclear deterrent off the table. British parliamentarians must surely be ignorant of history if they expect us to get a favourable deal by making our only deterrent of No Deal illegal. Unless of course the intention is to sabotage Brexit!

What were the chances of winning the last war if in response to The Blitz we had taken retaliatory bombing off the table or made it illegal?

9. Populism vs Elitism

Brexit is a test of the democratic will of a nation. It is a clear choice between

Being governed by elites and vested interests
or
Being a self-governing nation of the FREE

History of human civilisation is replete with examples of elites enslaving, exploiting and manipulating the masses in the name of any handy pie in the sky scam. This effort to exploit and enslave continues even today where the ruling classes promote ignorance with their propaganda and use false promises of jobs, prosperity and economic wellbeing as a substitute for good old brute force.

Elites have always ruled in the name of religion, nationalism or ideology to which we can now add their globalist aspirations which are disguised as virtue, political correctness or their concern for the jobs and prosperity of the citizens. If they really cared they would not shamelessly attempt to ignore the clear mandate of the electorate to leave the EU.

Scotland is another good example where the ruling class and elites are trying to persuade their citizens to become an independent nation. This involves breaking up their union with Britain where they are a part of a 4-nation state with shared heritage and history. Their preferred alternative? Join up with EU with 28 other members states with whom they have little in common. Does membership of EU make them any more independent than their current union with Britain? Of course not. Then why the clamour for independence? Could the lure of wealth and power be motivating the leaders to break-up one union only to join another with reduced independence and decision making powers?

So what does elitism look like?  It looks something like this photo of Cameron, Kinnock and Ashdown jointly campaigning for Remain.  For more clarity all you have to do is read the end of the Animal Farm by George Orwell!

To counter this blatant power grab, it is incumbent upon all citizens to make sure that any parliamentarian not obeying their mandate is never elected to public office ever again. Let us send a clear message to all future parliamentarians as to who their real masters are!

10. Conclusion

Lenin called the misinformed “Useful Idiots” because they could easily be led to believe anything by selling utopian ideals of an easy life where everything was free and provided by the state. The reality in fact was exactly the opposite in Soviet Union and Maoist China where the privileged elites ruled the masses by brute force, killing almost seventy million of the people they claimed to be serving!

Everybody who believes that the less than democratic EU will provide jobs, prosperity and funds should please take note.

It is only in the past 50 years, with widespread education, internet, social media and exercise of democratic power, the citizens have for the first time reclaimed their right to ensure that the ruling classes including politicians, bureaucrats and ideologues serve them as public servants and not as their masters.

It will need vigilance and fortitude on the part of the citizens to hold on to this hard-won victory because the elites and the powerful will try every devious trick available to them to claw back their power and influence.

We should remember that the closer we get to leaving the EU on our own terms the greater will be the backlash of the forces of Remain both in UK and EU.
Hell hath no fury like elites denied wealth, power and influence!

We should wake up to the reality that

• It is the people of each nation, and their culture, who are solely responsible a nation’s success and prosperity, and
• Promise of free lunches is always an invitation to slavery.

Let us put all our prejudices aside and consider Brexit as a critical test of our resolve to be FREE!  Without freedom, jobs, trade and prosperity mean nothing.

If leaving EU now is difficult what would the cost be if we decide to leave in 5 – 10 years’ time? Would we even be able to leave at all?

It is worth reflecting why on Remembrance Day we honour all those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defending the same values and freedoms we are now at the risk of losing forever?

Muse

1.  Is Brexit really complex or is it an intentional effort to mislead?
2.  Is the choice really between freedom and trade?
3.  Can both sides of an argument be right of is there one correct answer?
4.  Is scepticism and asking tough questions the only way to reveal the truth?